Definitions
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- interjection Nonsense word traditional to English
ballads andmadrigals . - noun Alternative form of
folderol . - noun A gaudy thing of little value; a
trinket . - noun
Nonsense . - noun Excessive efforts expended on a something trivial; much ado about nothing.
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Examples
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You get the odd guest coming on saying: "I like Mahler and all that, but I prefer a fol-de-rol."
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I have done a search on the 'net, and always get shunted into the "tour" fol-de-rol.
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I have done a search on the 'net, and always get shunted into the "tour" fol-de-rol.
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After a princely welcome, all hoopla and fol-de-rol, their shadowy spectacle proved too much to bear.
False Fire 2009
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You get the odd guest coming on saying: "I like Mahler and all that, but I prefer a fol-de-rol."
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I have done a search on the 'net, and always get shunted into the "tour" fol-de-rol.
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I have done a search on the 'net, and always get shunted into the "tour" fol-de-rol.
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The former would allow those who favor fiction-as-discourse to continue mining works of fiction for nuggets of "meaning" without being nagged by those favoring fiction-as-art about all that fol-de-rol known as "aesthetics."
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I have done a search on the 'net, and always get shunted into the "tour" fol-de-rol.
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After a princely welcome, all hoopla and fol-de-rol, their shadowy spectacle proved too much to bear.
False Fire 2009
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